Benjamin P Lange
Biographic Data
| ID | 87542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin P Lange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin P |
| FAMILY NAME | Lange |
| SIGNATURE | LANGE B P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Würzburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3810-772X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why Do You Watch This Rough Stuff? Assessing Predictors of Female Pornography Preferences
Different studies show that women are, on average, more interested than men in pornographic themes related to dominance and submission, including rape. Using a biopsychosocial approach, a total of 571 women, representative of age and education level, from Germany, were studied to explore the factors influencing the consumption of such pornography. Participants were experimentally exposed to either a consensual written pornographic stimulus or one…
Interdisziplinäre Schlaglichter auf Kulturproduktion und -rezeption – Perspektiven in Evolutionspsychologie und vergleichender Kulturwissenschaft
Wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzungen mit der Beschreibung und Erklärung menschlicher Kultur und ihrer Bedeutung für das soziale Miteinander sind überwiegend geistes- bzw. kulturwissenschaftlich geprägt. Es existieren jedoch auch Ansätze der evolutionären Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften, etwa der Evolutionspsychologie, die Kultur im Allgemeinen wie auch spezifische Erscheinungsformen von Kultur, z. B. Kunst, theoretisch wie empirisch überze…
Fluktuationen in den psychometrischen Kennwerten des hessischen „Kindersprachscreenings“ während und nach der Validierung
Most German states assess German language skills of children of the late kindergarten age in large-scale language screening programs. In the state of Hesse, language test “Kindersprachscreening” (“Language screening for children”, KiSS) was developed for this purpose. Its target group are kindergarten children aged four- to four-and-a-half years. In the present study, changes in the psychometric characteristics of KiSS – level of difficulty, item…
The impact of intelligent decision-support systems on humans' ethical decision-making
With the rise and public accessibility of AI-enabled decision-support systems, individuals outsource increasingly more of their decisions, even those that carry ethical dimensions. Considering this trend, scholars have highlighted that uncritical deference to these systems would be problematic and consequently called for investigations of the impact of pertinent technology on humans' ethical decision-making. To this end, this article conducts a s…
The repetition of language-specific non-words
Non-word repetition (NWR) is often utilized for the assessment of phonological short-term memory (PSTM) and as a clinical marker for language-related disorders. In this study, associations between children's language competence and their performance in language-specific NWR tasks as well as the relevance of NWR for the prediction of language development were scrutinized. German preschoolers ( N = 1,801) were compared regarding their performance i…
Zwischen Wissenserwerb und wahrgenommener Glaubwürdigkeit
Die vorliegende Forschung beschäftigt sich mit dem Sprachniveau von TV-Nachrichten und dessen Auswirkungen auf den Wissenserwerb von Rezipient:innen sowie auf die durch diese wahrgenommene Glaubwürdigkeit. Außerdem wurde untersucht, welche Rolle die mentale Anstrengung bei der Rezeption spielt. Nachrichtentexte, welche den drei Nachrichten Tagesschau, RTL aktuell und logo! entnommen wurden und sich in ihrem Sprachniveau unterschieden (hoch, mitte…
Sprachkontaktdauer
The intensity of the language contact belongs to numerous sociodemographic variables that influence the language competence of preschool children. This study aimed to examine associations between 16 variables related to the language contact and German language competence of multilingual children. Four-year-old kindergarten children (N = 824) were examined with the language test “Kindersprachscreening” (KiSS.2; Holler-Zittlau/Euler/Neumann 2011). …
Phonological Short-Term Memory
Non-word repetition tasks are widely used to assess phonological short-term memory (PSTM). Results of previous research on the performance of monolingual and bilingual children in PSTM tasks are inconclusive. Although in some studies bilinguals did outperform monolinguals in the repetition of non-words, most studies reported comparatively weak results of bilingual children, especially when they were tested in their L2. In this study, four-year-ol…
Bist du schlau? Dann guckst du(,) logo! Ein Vergleich der Wissensvermittlung durch die Nachrichtensendungen Tagesschau und logo! und ihrer sprachlichen Gestaltung
Die vorliegende empirische Studie beschäftigt sich mit dem Vergleich der Tagesschau mit den Kindernachrichten von logo! Es wurde vermutet, dass der Wissenserwerb durch logo! höher ausfällt und sich logo! durch ein niedrigeres Sprachniveau auszeichnet, was zu höherem Wissen beitragen könnte. Zur Überprüfung der Annahmen wurde ein Online-Experiment konzipiert, welches das durch beide Sendungen in Form konkreter Beiträge vermittelte Wissen von 260 V…
Strange Relations
Data from three follow‐up studies on language acquisition were re‐analyzed retrospectively to identify sociodemographic and geolinguistic factors associated with changes in German language competence of German preschoolers ( N = 508). Surprisingly at first sight, factors unfavorable for German language acquisition (e.g., only other languages than German spoken at home) were associated with a considerable language progress. This can be explained b…
Sprachniveau in Online- und TV-Nachrichten
Nachrichten stellen ein beliebtes Forschungsfeld der Kommunikationsforschung dar. In der entsprechenden deutschsprachigen Forschung werden vielfach die Hauptnachrichten der beiden deutschen Rundfunksysteme (öffentlich-rechtlich vs. privat) miteinander verglichen – zuletzt z. B. hinsichtlich ihres Sprachniveaus. Allerdings existiert wenig Forschung, die sich dem Online-Nachrichtenangebot widmet. Daher lag unser Ziel in der Analyse des Sprachniveau…
Sociolinguistic factors associated with the subjectively and objectively measured language development in German preschoolers in three follow-up studies
The study aimed at an analysis of sociolinguistic variables associated with the language acquisition progress between the first and the second test sessions in three follow-up studies with German preschool children. In all three samples, children acquiring German, both Germans and immigrants, were tested twice with validated language tests within a time span of several months. Furthermore, language skills of children were judged by daycare center…
Medienpsychologie
In diesem Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk werden 61 zentrale Konzepte der Medienpsychologie in kurzen Texten vorgestellt, die das aktuelle Wissen zu spezifischen Annahmen und Theorien bündeln. In der Neuauflage werden vor allem aktuelle Konzepte aus dem Bereich der Social Media integriert. Die einzelnen Kapitel sind nach einem einheitlichen Schema gestaltet und enthalten eine kurze Darstellung des jeweiligen Konzepts, eine detaillierte Erläuterung d…
Pseudo Names Are More Than Hollow Words
Many studies demonstrate sex differences in communication. We investigated whether also pseudonyms used in anonymity revealed the sex of the pseudonym user and whether male and female pseudonyms were perceived differently regarding sex-typical attributes (partially taken from the Bem Sex-Role Inventory), the Big Five, and creativity. Pseudonyms chosen by 19 men and 19 women were randomly selected from a list of 2,096 pseudonyms used in written un…
Words Won't Fail
Applying sexual selection theory to language, it can be assumed that high verbal proficiency increases attractiveness, but male more than female attractiveness, because women have higher costs regarding reproduction and are thus more selective in mate choice. These predictions were tested experimentally. In the first study, videos were used as the stimuli for opposite-sex participants where an actor/actress performed verbal self-presentations. Th…
Words Won't Fail
Applying sexual selection theory to language, it can be assumed that high verbal proficiency increases attractiveness, but male more than female attractiveness, because women have higher costs regarding reproduction and are thus more selective in mate choice. These predictions were tested experimentally. In the first study, videos were used as the stimuli for opposite-sex participants where an actor/actress performed verbal self-presentations. Th…
Sprachniveau in Online- und TV-Nachrichten
Nachrichten stellen ein beliebtes Forschungsfeld der Kommunikationsforschung dar. In der entsprechenden deutschsprachigen Forschung werden vielfach die Hauptnachrichten der beiden deutschen Rundfunksysteme (öffentlich-rechtlich vs. privat) miteinander verglichen – zuletzt z. B. hinsichtlich ihres Sprachniveaus. Allerdings existiert wenig Forschung, die sich dem Online-Nachrichtenangebot widmet. Daher lag unser Ziel in der Analyse des Sprachniveau…
Words Won't Fail
Applying sexual selection theory to language, it can be assumed that high verbal proficiency increases attractiveness, but male more than female attractiveness, because women have higher costs regarding reproduction and are thus more selective in mate choice. These predictions were tested experimentally. In the first study, videos were used as the stimuli for opposite-sex participants where an actor/actress performed verbal self-presentations. Th…
Medienpsychologie
In diesem Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk werden 61 zentrale Konzepte der Medienpsychologie in kurzen Texten vorgestellt, die das aktuelle Wissen zu spezifischen Annahmen und Theorien bündeln. In der Neuauflage werden vor allem aktuelle Konzepte aus dem Bereich der Social Media integriert. Die einzelnen Kapitel sind nach einem einheitlichen Schema gestaltet und enthalten eine kurze Darstellung des jeweiligen Konzepts, eine detaillierte Erläuterung d…
Pseudo Names Are More Than Hollow Words
Many studies demonstrate sex differences in communication. We investigated whether also pseudonyms used in anonymity revealed the sex of the pseudonym user and whether male and female pseudonyms were perceived differently regarding sex-typical attributes (partially taken from the Bem Sex-Role Inventory), the Big Five, and creativity. Pseudonyms chosen by 19 men and 19 women were randomly selected from a list of 2,096 pseudonyms used in written un…
Sociolinguistic factors associated with the subjectively and objectively measured language development in German preschoolers in three follow-up studies
The study aimed at an analysis of sociolinguistic variables associated with the language acquisition progress between the first and the second test sessions in three follow-up studies with German preschool children. In all three samples, children acquiring German, both Germans and immigrants, were tested twice with validated language tests within a time span of several months. Furthermore, language skills of children were judged by daycare center…
Sprachniveau in Online- und TV-Nachrichten
Nachrichten stellen ein beliebtes Forschungsfeld der Kommunikationsforschung dar. In der entsprechenden deutschsprachigen Forschung werden vielfach die Hauptnachrichten der beiden deutschen Rundfunksysteme (öffentlich-rechtlich vs. privat) miteinander verglichen – zuletzt z. B. hinsichtlich ihres Sprachniveaus. Allerdings existiert wenig Forschung, die sich dem Online-Nachrichtenangebot widmet. Daher lag unser Ziel in der Analyse des Sprachniveau…
Strange Relations
Data from three follow‐up studies on language acquisition were re‐analyzed retrospectively to identify sociodemographic and geolinguistic factors associated with changes in German language competence of German preschoolers ( N = 508). Surprisingly at first sight, factors unfavorable for German language acquisition (e.g., only other languages than German spoken at home) were associated with a considerable language progress. This can be explained b…
Sprachkontaktdauer
The intensity of the language contact belongs to numerous sociodemographic variables that influence the language competence of preschool children. This study aimed to examine associations between 16 variables related to the language contact and German language competence of multilingual children. Four-year-old kindergarten children (N = 824) were examined with the language test “Kindersprachscreening” (KiSS.2; Holler-Zittlau/Euler/Neumann 2011). …
Phonological Short-Term Memory
Non-word repetition tasks are widely used to assess phonological short-term memory (PSTM). Results of previous research on the performance of monolingual and bilingual children in PSTM tasks are inconclusive. Although in some studies bilinguals did outperform monolinguals in the repetition of non-words, most studies reported comparatively weak results of bilingual children, especially when they were tested in their L2. In this study, four-year-ol…
Bist du schlau? Dann guckst du(,) logo! Ein Vergleich der Wissensvermittlung durch die Nachrichtensendungen Tagesschau und logo! und ihrer sprachlichen Gestaltung
Die vorliegende empirische Studie beschäftigt sich mit dem Vergleich der Tagesschau mit den Kindernachrichten von logo! Es wurde vermutet, dass der Wissenserwerb durch logo! höher ausfällt und sich logo! durch ein niedrigeres Sprachniveau auszeichnet, was zu höherem Wissen beitragen könnte. Zur Überprüfung der Annahmen wurde ein Online-Experiment konzipiert, welches das durch beide Sendungen in Form konkreter Beiträge vermittelte Wissen von 260 V…
The impact of intelligent decision-support systems on humans' ethical decision-making
With the rise and public accessibility of AI-enabled decision-support systems, individuals outsource increasingly more of their decisions, even those that carry ethical dimensions. Considering this trend, scholars have highlighted that uncritical deference to these systems would be problematic and consequently called for investigations of the impact of pertinent technology on humans' ethical decision-making. To this end, this article conducts a s…
The repetition of language-specific non-words
Non-word repetition (NWR) is often utilized for the assessment of phonological short-term memory (PSTM) and as a clinical marker for language-related disorders. In this study, associations between children's language competence and their performance in language-specific NWR tasks as well as the relevance of NWR for the prediction of language development were scrutinized. German preschoolers ( N = 1,801) were compared regarding their performance i…
Zwischen Wissenserwerb und wahrgenommener Glaubwürdigkeit
Die vorliegende Forschung beschäftigt sich mit dem Sprachniveau von TV-Nachrichten und dessen Auswirkungen auf den Wissenserwerb von Rezipient:innen sowie auf die durch diese wahrgenommene Glaubwürdigkeit. Außerdem wurde untersucht, welche Rolle die mentale Anstrengung bei der Rezeption spielt. Nachrichtentexte, welche den drei Nachrichten Tagesschau, RTL aktuell und logo! entnommen wurden und sich in ihrem Sprachniveau unterschieden (hoch, mitte…
Interdisziplinäre Schlaglichter auf Kulturproduktion und -rezeption – Perspektiven in Evolutionspsychologie und vergleichender Kulturwissenschaft
Wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzungen mit der Beschreibung und Erklärung menschlicher Kultur und ihrer Bedeutung für das soziale Miteinander sind überwiegend geistes- bzw. kulturwissenschaftlich geprägt. Es existieren jedoch auch Ansätze der evolutionären Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften, etwa der Evolutionspsychologie, die Kultur im Allgemeinen wie auch spezifische Erscheinungsformen von Kultur, z. B. Kunst, theoretisch wie empirisch überze…
Fluktuationen in den psychometrischen Kennwerten des hessischen „Kindersprachscreenings“ während und nach der Validierung
Most German states assess German language skills of children of the late kindergarten age in large-scale language screening programs. In the state of Hesse, language test “Kindersprachscreening” (“Language screening for children”, KiSS) was developed for this purpose. Its target group are kindergarten children aged four- to four-and-a-half years. In the present study, changes in the psychometric characteristics of KiSS – level of difficulty, item…
Why Do You Watch This Rough Stuff? Assessing Predictors of Female Pornography Preferences
Different studies show that women are, on average, more interested than men in pornographic themes related to dominance and submission, including rape. Using a biopsychosocial approach, a total of 571 women, representative of age and education level, from Germany, were studied to explore the factors influencing the consumption of such pornography. Participants were experimentally exposed to either a consensual written pornographic stimulus or one…
Computer Science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy (5 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)